hello! i ordered an assemble it yourself bedroom which is due to arrive & i was thinking of taking its pieces to have them cut a bit shorter before trying to assemble them as i am coming to the conclusion that this is impossible to erect inside the room.
from my understanding it is simple to get one board (1cm thick) 2.5m high upright in a 2.7m room, but not 2 wardrobes of depth 60cm.
do i have any alternatives to cutting them down? thx
I've done it by assembling it vertically rather than on the floor. Took 2 and a bit people to hold'n'shove'n'screw at times but it ended up OK. That was a 235cm height wardrobe in a 242cm height room.
Cant see a problem really...you start assembling it with the side uprights and work from there.
ps if its a self assembly job...why is it coming assembled?
He said "taking its pieces" rather than "taking it to pieces" to be cut.
Tricky if you assemble it on its back and then try to raise it into position. I have built one in its vertical position though without any difficulty. It was a two person job since you don't have the benefit of the floor to hold things, but it was quite do-able.
Sorry, just surfaced from an afternoon kip. :-)
How much height do you need?
Worst case sounds like the height of the room needs to be as long or longer than the top to bottom, front to back diagonal:
sqrt( 0.6^2 2.5^2 ) = 2.6m
So you have 10cm clear if you built it flat on its front and then tip it upright.
(If there was insufficient height to raise it from laying down then it could always be built it upright).
Yup. BT, DT, GTTS. Also once had a customer who bought 6 x double wardrobes
2.6m high for a walk in dressing room 2.4m high! had to cut the buggers down & assemble them upright!
Taking them where? This man needs to get the Lidl's jigsaw.
Jim A
yes.a very handy application of pythagoras.
I went back to the room and to complicate matters realized that it its floor dimensions are 3m by 2.8m! the 3m allowing for 50cm room after it is constructed on the floor.
However scribbling on some paper i found that the pivot point when erecting has to be 60cm away from the wall. .60+2.5m= 3.1m!!
i have put together a 16K jpg drawing showing this new problem. what are my options now?
further away once its clear of the opposite wall. Even a 3 degree tilt will be enough to allow its pivot line to move away
(works even better with the + sign missing above ;-)
forward once you have it raised to say 45 degrees - probably much easier to do than to describe.
As others have said, by far the best idea is to assemble it upright rather than lying on its front. If you *really* want to assemble it lying down, you obviously have to start with it further to the left (in your diagram) and then drag it to the right when it's partially upright.
I got a 2.7m one in a 2.72m room.
I assmebled it pretty much in place. The top and bottom had fixings that had to be done from the outside, if I followed the pictures. I turned the pieces over, so the fixings were tightened from the inside, now I could access them, so I built the wardrobe stood up.
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